Qantas we need you [to service Cairns Internationally]

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Limewood

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As CX flys off into the sunset leaving CNS/HKG high and dry as of 27th Oct 2019, at least no more inflated seat prices or full service airline on this 7 hour flight. Yet Qantas will have a freight only service. Qantas we need to you to step up to the plate and carry passengers on this sector as you did decades ago, instead of us in FNQ having to add a capital city and time to our flight plans.

Now before I go, apparently no one has told Qantas Cairns is experiencing a boom, B$ in major building works (like the brilliant Crystalbrook Collection) and not enough people to fill these projects, plus massive highway rebuilds out of the city, there's more...you see the harbour has just been dredged after some 50 years or so and now the super size ships are lining up in their droves and will be docking right in town like the current small ships do now once the $100M wharf is completed.
 
Aren't ADL and CBR far bigger than Cairns and without any direct QF international services?

Yes, but they don't have one of Australia's main tourist attractions on their doorsteps, or are one of closer airports to the origins of many of those tourists.
 
An A321LR base with service to NRT, SIN and HKG?
 
Yes, but they don't have one of Australia's main tourist attractions on their doorsteps, or are one of closer airports to the origins of many of those tourists.

If ADL and CBR don't warrant international services in QF's eyes, I think you'll struggle to convince QF to start services into Cairns. Sure Cairns has more tourists, but its population is less than 150,000; Adelaide is 1.3 million. Not sure the number of tourists counteracts that disparity, though happy to be proven wrong if the facts suggest Cairns has ten times as many tourists as Adelaide.
 
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Yes, but they don't have one of Australia's main tourist attractions on their doorsteps, or are one of closer airports to the origins of many of those tourists.
I would say ADL has more than one of Australia's main tourist attractions in Kangaroo Island, Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale wine regions plus Adelaide Oval (considered as one of the world's best)
Of course I'm slightly biased :)
 
Of course you have the QF owned JQi services from Cairns to NRT,KIX and DPS.
 
I would say ADL has more than one of Australia's main tourist attractions in Kangaroo Island, Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale wine regions plus Adelaide Oval (considered as one of the world's best)
Of course I'm slightly biased :)

GBR is thought to attract circa 2,000,000 visitors per annum......

Kangaroo Island circa 200,000.
 
GBR is thought to attract circa 2,000,000 visitors per annum......

Kangaroo Island circa 200,000.
Though the GBR is quite long and there are several places to access it right down to Bundaberg.All will be counted in that 2 million.
 
Air Niugini punched out a press release earlier this week saying they would be running two 767 services CNS to HKK via POM twice a week effective 27 October. When checked Air Niugini website last night, still not showing
 
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Of course you have the QF owned JQi services from Cairns to NRT,KIX and DPS.

QF have not been shy about supplementing or replacing JQ services with QF services, in recent years. SYD/MEL-OOL/DPS, SYD-MCY, MEL-SIN are routes that come to mind. If QF determined they could make more money putting their limited fleet on CNS routes than elsewhere, I am sure they would.
 
If ADL and CBR don't warrant international services in QF's eyes, I think you'll struggle to convince QF to start services into Cairns. Sure Cairns has more tourists, but its population is less than 150,000; Adelaide is 1.3 million. Not sure the number of tourists counteracts that disparity, though happy to be proven wrong if the facts suggest Cairns has ten times as many tourists as Adelaide.

Yes, acknowledge all that, no problems. But Cairns IS the 'gateway to the reef' and a big chunk of the tourists come from Asia, which Cairns is closer to than many airports that could handle the traffic.

And yes, clearly I would struggle to convince Qantas. :rolleyes: :oops: Just as everyone struggled to convince Qantas to have any international services from Perth for yonks, before the service to London. I'm sure Qantas would love everyone to fly into Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and then have to catch another Qantas flight up to the reef!!
 
No they haven't replaced a JQ service to MCY.The QF service was an extra service leaving MCY in the early morning and coming back early evening.Mainly to satisfy business customers.So no flight to MCY on Saturday evening and no early morning flight from MCY flight Sunday morning.JQ still has 4 SYD-MCY flights a day.
Besides Cairns has a population of ~ 160000 and a drainage of an extra 120000 whereas the Sunshine Coast has ~360000 and a drainage of ~200000.That is it is twice the size of Cairns and is the fastest growing area of QLD.
 
Let's be brutally honest here...... airlines don't cancel profitable routes.

Additionally, there are many data intelligence tools which airlines subscribe [pay] to keep their pulse on demand,
For example - Visa/Mastercard/Amex and all the banks sell data to airlines. They could make correlations between an uplift in spend at McDonald's on premium cards, and a softening of yield on flights to HKG (this is a made-up example - but you get an idea of the level of data airlines look into).

Furthermore, cancelling a route is expensive in that, to re-start the route it will generally incur losses for a period of time as demand is built-up again.
So airlines won't cancel a route if there is only a X/months softening of demand because of the cost to start it up again.

Cairns may be booming but either nobody wants to visit there (and fly CX), or not enough premium yield is coming out of FNQ to HKG.

Do you really think QF would step up given the above?
 
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